Sentences with phrase «types of cancer cells do»

As an aside, many types of cancer cells do NOT have this adaptability and require glucose to thrive, which makes the ketogenic diet an effective therapy for combating cancer.

Not exact matches

Using tumor samples from a patient, they do lab tests to determine which substances can first make the different types of cancer cells uniform and then effectively kill them.

However, this coupling does not exist in cell culture models with exogenously expressed c - MYC — the type of systems that are mainly used to investigate glutamine addiction in cancer.

Three types of colon cancer cells grew faster, producing about 50 to 60 percent more cells within 24 hours, with the bacteria than they did when cultured with no bacteria or with a harmless, milk - fermenting bacterium called Lactococcus lactis.

Coussens and her U.C.S.F. colleagues Douglas Hanahan and Zena Werb reported in 1999 that mice engineered with activated cancer genes but without mast cells (another type of innate immune cell) developed premalignant tissue that did not progress to full malignancy.

Researchers do not know if the same thing would work for other types of cancer or cancer cells lodged in other body organs.

Although myeloma is, like leukemias and lymphomas, a cancer involving white blood cells known as lymphocytes, myeloma cells don't traditionally express CD19 on their surface because they arise from the most mature type of lymphocytes — plasma cells.

Professor Miyazaki continues, «It is surprising that we do have an excellent system to eliminate undesired cancer cells, and that this system may certainly be therapeutically applicable not only to HCC, but also more broadly to other types of cancer.»

If «cancer stem cells» play the critical roles some scientists think they do, anticancer therapy must target more than one type of cell.

Findings published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute show that immune cells do not respond the same way to all tumor types.

«This unique strain of skin bacteria produces a chemical that kills several types of cancer cells but does not appear to be toxic to normal cells,» Richard Gallo, chair of the department of dermatology at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and an author on the study, said in a statement.

Unfortunately, the study did find that limiting the availability of serine and glycine did not have the same cancer - reducing reaction in all types of cancer cells.

Lead study author Dr. Daniel Lacorazza noted that «acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a type of cancer of the white blood cells common in children... there is about an 80 percent cure rate, but some children don't respond to treatment.

Likewise, a study done at Tufts College of Veterinary Medicine found that cats exposed to secondhand smoke have an increased chance of developing a type of oral cancer that smoker's often fall victim to — squamous cell carcinoma.

Have you ever had or been diagnosed with more than one occurrence of the same or different type of cancer; or do you currently have cancer (excluding basal cell skin cancer)?

In addition to being less dangerous that other types skin cancers, insurance companies are also going to acknowledge that as long as your basal cell carcinoma has been discovered early on and doesn't show any signs of metastasis you shouldn't necessarily have an issue qualifying for a tradition term life insurance or whole life insurance policy, and may even qualify for a Preferred or Preferred Plus rate.